You’ve now learned powerful ways to import images and organize your library. The next step is to improve your selected images
using Aperture’s flexible editing toolset. The editing workflow can be divided into five areas of focus.

Basic Edits—Basic corrections include geometric tasks like straightening and cropping, and essential improvements like setting the white
balance and removing red eye.

RAW-Specific Edits—RAW files can be adjusted precisely using RAW Fine Tuning, which offers the ability to control Sharpening, Noise Reduction,
and Hue Boost.

Tonal Correction—Aperture gives precise control over an image’s tonal properties with controls like Highlight Recovery, Levels, Highlights
and Shadows, and Contrast.

Color Correction—Aperture lets you enhance the color in an image with control over Hue, Saturation, and Vibrancy as well as isolating and improving
individual colors within a photo.

Enhancing Images—It’s easy to remove distracting flaws in an image using the Retouch Brush and Spot & Patch tools. Vignettes can also be removed
from an image or added for stylistic purposes.

As you narrow down your images and make selects, you’ll often need to perform basic edits and corrections. In some cases,
you’ll want to quickly fix image problems before showing the photos to a client. In other cases, you may want to try straightening
or cropping a version of an image to determine if it will work in a certain context. Learning how to perform basic edits in
an efficient manner will greatly benefit you as a photographer.

Importing Images from iPhoto

Aperture offers an open library structure, which means you can store photos anywhere you want. Many Aperture users already
have several images stored in their iPhoto libraries. You can have Aperture link to your iPhoto library or import the files
into the Aperture library. In this lesson, you’ll begin by adding a collection of photos to your iPhoto library, and then
see how easy it is to access those images.

NOTE

Although we are adding images to iPhoto, we’re not suggesting that the iPhoto library is the ideal location for your images.
Each user will need to determine how they want to organize their own image libraries. What’s important is that the iPhoto
libraries can be easily migrated and upgraded by bringing them into Aperture.

Adding Images to iPhoto

In this lesson, you’ll work with several images that need basic corrections. You’ll access images from iPhoto in order to
illustrate the open library system. But to showcase this interaction, you’ll need to add photos to iPhoto first.

Open the Lessons folder and navigate to Lesson 04. Open that folder and locate a folder of images called Kid_Photos.